Guy de Beauchamp 
Guy was born in 1272 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. Guy's father was William De Beauchamp and his mother was Maud de Mandeville. His paternal grandparents were William De Beauchamp and Isabel de Mauduit; his maternal grandparents were Sir John de Mandeville and Isabel Bigod. He had two brothers and five sisters, named Robert, John, Isabel, Anne, Amy, Margaret and Matilda Maud. He was the third oldest of the eight children. He died at the age of 43 on August 12th, 1315 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England.General Notes
Guy de Beauchamp, 2nd Earl of Warwick, acquired high military honors in the martial reign of Edward I, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Falkirk, for which he was rewarded with extensive grants of land in Scotland, at the seige of Caerlaverock, and upon different occasions and also beyond the seas. In the reign of Edward II (1306-1326) he likewise played a very prominent part. In 1310 his lordship was in the commission appointed by parliament to draw up regulations for "the well governing of the kingdom and the king's household," in consequence of the corrupt influence at that period by Piers Gaveston, in the affairs of the realm, through the unbounded partiality of the king; and in two years afterwards, when that unhappy favorite fell into the hands of his enemies, upon the surrender of Scarborough Castle, his lordship violently seized upon his person, and after a summary trial caused him to be beheaded at Blacklow Hill near Warwick. The Earl's hostility to Gaveston is said to have been much increased by learning that the favorite had nicknamed him "the Black Dog of Aedenne." For this unwarrantable proceeding his lordship, and all others concerned therein, received in two years the royal pardon, but he is supposed to have eventually perished by poison, administered by the partisans of Gaveston.
The Earl married Alice, daughter of Ralph de Toni, son (by Alice de Bohun) of Ralph de Toni of Flamstead, County Herts, and had Thomas, his successor, John, Maud, Emma, Isabel, Elizabeth and Lucia. This great Earl of Warwick was, like most of the nobles of his time, a munificent benefactor to the church, having bestowed lands upon several religious houses, and founded a chantry of priests at his Manor of Elmley. His will bears date "at Warwick Castle" on Monday next after the Feast of St. James the Apostle 1315, and by it he bequeaths to Alice, his wife, a proportion of his plate, with a crystal cup, and half his bedding; as also all the vestments and books belonging to his chapel; the other moiety of his beds, rings and jewels he gives to his daughters. To his son Thomas his best coat of mail, helmet and suit of harness, and to his son John his second suit of mail, etc., appointing that all the rest of his armour, bows and other warlike "provisions" should remain at Warwick Castle for his heir. His widow married 2nd William la Zouche of Ashby, County Leicester. The Earl died at Warwick Castle August 12, 1315, succeeded by his eldest son, then but two years of age
He distinguished himself at the battle of Falkirk, and caused Piers Gaveston to be beheaded, whose partisins afterward poisoned him, and he died at Warwick Castle, 12 August 1315
Giles de Beauchamp, youngest son, succeeded his elder brother Walter in 1328, and also inherited the estates of his brother William, and had already inherited by the settlement of his elder brother the lordship of Alcester, the manor house of which called Beauchamp's Court, he had license to fortify in the 14th of Edward III (1340), with a wall of stone and lime, and to embattle it, and he obtained similar permission regarding his house at Fresh-Water in the Isle of Wight, in the 16th year of the same reign, 1342/3
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1130 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.1212
- b.~ 1168 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.1235
- b.1154 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1184 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.14 Apr 1236
- b.~ 1126 in Briouze, Normandy, France d.~ 1192 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1171 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1170
- b.1210 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.1269
- b.1108 in Wigmore, England d.1185
- b.1155 in Wigmore, England d.24 Jun 1214 in Wigmore, England
- b.~ 1122 in Harringworth, Northants, England d.> 1190
- b.1195 in Wigmore, England d.1268
- b.~ 1142 in Oakham, Rutland, England d.1192 in Siege of Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1171 in Oakham, Rutland, England d.29 Apr 1240
- b.~ 1134 in Normandy, France
- b.1237 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.09 Jun 1298 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1130 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.1199
- b.~ 1154 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.Jun 1221
- b.~ 1138 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1185 in Hanslape, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Wallingford, Oxon, England d.1181
- b.1162 in Chapham, Bedfordshire, England d.1224
- b.~ 1134 in Combe Castle, Wiltshire, England d.> 1186
- b.1217 in Hanslape, Buckinghamshire, England d.< 1268
- b.~ 1090 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.12 Jun 1553
- b.~ 1134 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.24 Dec 1203 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1124 in Surrey, England d.> 1166
- b.~ 1187 in Bosworth, Leicestershire, England d.1263
- b.~ 1118 in Leicestershire, England d.1202
- b.~ 1146 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1121
- b.1272 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England d.12 Aug 1315 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1132 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.08 May 1198 in Winchester, England
- b.~ 1162 in Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Norfolk, England
- b.1102 in New Temple Church, Essex, England d.16 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1138 in Rycott, Oxford, England
- b.~ 1109 in Roycott, Oxford, England d.21 Oct 1166 in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1215 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.~ 1084 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abargavenny, Gwent, Wales, slain by the Welsh
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxford, England
- b.~ 1094 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.1136
- b.~ 1172 in Herford, England d.04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1100 in Harcourt, Eure, France
- b.1132 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1102
- b.1237 in Bernard Castle, Warwick, England d.16 Apr 1301 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- b.1150 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.18 FEB 1223/24
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1208 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Warren, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1223 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1146 in Nottingham, England d.1219 in Jerusalem
- b.~ 1200 in Nottingham, England d.13 Apr 1238 in slain by the Saracens in the Holy Land
- b.~ 1164 in Nottingham, England d.23 Jun 1247
- b.~ 1208 in Nottingham, England
- b.~ 1180 in Nottingham, England
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Guy and Alice were married in a religious ceremony in 1303 in Warwick Castle, England. They had two sons and five daughters, named John, Sir Thomas, Isabel, Elizabeth, Matilda Maud, Emma and Lucia Jane.
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Children
Elizabeth de Beauchamp
Elizabeth was born in 1305 in Warwick Castle, Elmley, Warwickshire, England. She died at the age of 54 in 1359.
Matilda Maud De Beauchamp
Matilda Maud was born in 1308 in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England. She died at the age of 61 on July 25th, 1369.
Sir Thomas de Beauchamp
Sir Thomas was born in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. He died on November 13th, 1369 in Calais, France (Plague). He was buried in Saint Mary's, Warwick, England.
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